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Thomas Cook costs and Quaker ethics

Letters: Liz Byrne says the Quaker approach to business could have helped avert the crisis, Marie Sansford wants to know why the government is not prepared to bail out the company, while Arthur Scargill thinks nationalisation is the solution

Published: 23 Sep 2019

Published: 23 Sep 2019

Maxine Peake’s play Queens of the Coal Age to get stage premiere

True story of four women who occupied Lancashire colliery in 1993 set for run at Manchester’s Royal Exchange

Published: 15 Nov 2017

Labour’s new soft Brexit policy could create electoral problems

Letters: It matters much less what the Labour party policy is on our transition out of the EU, than what their policy is on the shape of the final destination

Published: 29 Aug 2017

Published: 29 Aug 2017

Desert Island Discs: 75 defining moments from 75 years of castaways

The show’s first guest was marooned three quarters of a century ago this month. Here are the moments that made Desert Island Discs a radio classic

Published: 6 Jan 2017

Greenslade Where the newspapers stand on the junior doctors' strike

Roy Greenslade

‘Cowardly’ Jeremy Hunt, says the strike-supporting Daily Mirror. Doctors are squandering the public’s trust, says the government-supporting Times.

Published: 26 Apr 2016

Published: 26 Apr 2016

Bill Sirs obituary

Moderate leader of the steelworkers’ union, he led his members out on strike in 1980

Published: 22 Jun 2015

Lord Mason of Barnsley obituary

Labour MP and minister determined to take on the IRA by force during his time as Northern Ireland secretary in the 1970s

Published: 20 Apr 2015

Greenslade Frank Thorne retires - who would ever have imagined that possible?

Award-winning reporter decides to hang up his notebook

Published: 3 Jul 2014

Norman Willis obituary

Leader of the TUC during one of the most traumatic periods in trade union history

Published: 25 Jun 2014

Lee Hall: Spielberg, Scargill and me

On the 30th anniversary of the miners' strike, Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall talks to Simon Hattenstone about Thatcher's death, being fired from War Horse – and finding the lead for his Elton John musical

Published: 10 Mar 2014

In search of Arthur Scargill: 30 years after the miners' strike

As the anniversary of the 1984 miners' strike approaches, its figurehead Arthur Scargill has become a recluse, at war with the current NUM leadership. John Harris went in search of Yorkshire's living legend … and found him

Published: 28 Feb 2014

Awaiting an apology for Arthur Scargill

Letters: I welcome confirmation that Arthur Scargill's 1984 analysis of the government's plans for the mining industry have been vindicated

Published: 3 Jan 2014

Published: 3 Jan 2014

Margaret Thatcher was 'evil', says Arthur Scargill's former wife - video

Anne Scargill, ex-wife of Arthur Scargill, who led the miners during the 1984-85 strike, says she was 'really happy' to hear of Margaret Thatcher's death

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Published: 9 Apr 2013

Lord Lofthouse of Pontefract obituary

Moderate Labour MP and champion of his mining constituency

Published: 1 Nov 2012

Shortcuts Why Arthur Scargill is reluctant to leave his £1.5m Barbican flat

The National Union of Mineworkers is fed up of forking out for their former president, but he clearly likes his home among the thrilling multi-levelled walkways, says Oliver Wainwright

Published: 7 Oct 2012

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